Entering the River Naked: Field Notes from the Feminine Wild

A MEMOIR MAPPING THE WILDS OF ONE WOMAN'S HEART IN HOT PURSUIT OF THE SACRED. In ENTERING THE RIVER NAKED: Field Notes from the Feminine Wild, Ann Shannon faces down her core of fear, failing marriage and career, and moves to the forested foothills of Sierra Nevada. There, she begins nightly sojourns through the woods that often last until dawn. As she lays claim to a majestic and tender new life that mirrors the ecstatic beauty of the Earth and sky around her, Shannon's journals, mythic dreams, and poetry leave a trail of exhilarating glimpses into the power of Nature and the unbridled feminine to inform and to heal.

With echoes of Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Adrienne Rich, and Susan Griffin, ENTERING THE RIVER NAKED: Field Notes from the Feminine Wild leaves us craving more accounts of women giving free rein to the deepest impulses of the heart.